Results.
Gortin Score champs 23/2/08
Castle Archdale Local Colour 16th March 2008
Club Score Event 13th April 2008 Gortin Forest Park
Drum Manor Local Colour Series No 3
2008 april / may
Fermanagh Orienteers Newsletter
May 2008
Hi folks, May is almost over and there is not a lot to report, the Leinster champs and the Irish champs have passed and only a couple of members attended both events so not a lot of news there.
The NI Delegate conference took place and a lot of things were discussed, how much was achieved only time will tell, as far as our club was concerned we will not be organising any NI colour competitions in 2009, but we will be taking on the S home internationals, this leaves us with plenty of room for development on the local scene and we must take advantage of this.
The NI colour at Meelmore saw few Ferm o members in attendance, about 4, I think, it turned out to be a good event.
On the local scene, we started the local colour competition, 3 events have gone and we will soon decide the winners after the event at C/A on the 15th of June.
The event at Florencecourt was a bit disappointing, misunderstanding on the placing of controls led to longer times by competitors, I have still not received any results for this event, if they are not received before the final event takes place I will have to disregard the event and take the results from the three events I have results for to decide the winners.
It is the organisers of events responsibility to produce results, and in all fairness, competitors deserve the right to receive results after paying an entry fee and competing.
The good weather is now with us and we should be able to look forward to some decent orienteering, yours in sport ED.
April 2008
Hi Folks were are now into April and I hope we will have an improvement in the weather, I think we were all put off by Easter arriving early this year.
The JK provided some wintry scenes but also some good results, these have already been shown on the home page and the winners of our presentation tumblers announced,
(None sold yet). Also on homepage.
Not many ferm o members going to the Leinster or the Irish Champs, but we have a few local competitions coming up and I hope you will support them.
A few members did not re-new this year and our numbers are down for the first time in 10 years.
Some of our juniors have left for distant climes and will be missed on the local O scene.
Talking of juniors the school coaching scene is still ongoing, recent coaching events have been held and our own juniors added their skills to enhance these meetings.
More participation is needed by the club, last years statistics were dismal and this showed up in the winners enclosure at the NI Orienteering A.G.M. Lets do better this year!
We need new members and we need past members re-joining, you can spread the message, lets get interested in the club, there is to be a club delegate day on the 10th of May organised by the NI Orienteering Committee, how Northern Ireland Orienteering goes forward over the next few years is an important topic, we need more participation and more membership and of course generation of funds is also on the cards.
I do believe our members hibernate for the winter, because we never see them till about May when hopefully the weather improves, but the sun is now shining and the forest is coming alive, lets get out and about, you know Orienteering doesn’t just happen, we have to make it happen.
There are lots of things happening at top end of orienteering and sometimes the grass roots of our sport get neglected, but there are many of us who are dedicated to the grass roots area of our sport, the base of NI Orienteering is built on our club structure and this is where we need to put our efforts to work in making our club worthwhile joining and providing good local competition as well as NI orienteering.
I would like to see our club successful at competitive level and at a social level with good communications with all of our members.
May your next control be where you thought it would be, BILL